Was poking around in the Dept. of Ed Equity in Athletics database and thought it would be fun to make a chart showing how university spending per athlete has changed over the years, particularly in the post-NIL era. I chose to use the Big 12 conference as an example (personal bias).

A $50 air filter, fyi. It's loud and not sealed great around the edges but you can fix that with duct tape it. Not fancy but it does what it does: pulls air through an HVAC filter of your choice, which are a lot cheaper to replace than proprietary brand ones. www.homedepot.com/p/Lasko-Air-...

Aka foo fighters gun.

Ok, if you insist, here's a video of my baby killifish having a nibble on freshly hatched brine shrimp. So adorable, right?

If the Reflecting Pool holds 6,750,000 gallons of water [1], and you need a final concentration of 80 ppm H2O2 to shock kill algae [2], how many gallons of 12% H2O2 would you need to add to the pool to kill the algae? I'm a bit rusty on Chem 101 math, but I came up with 4,508 gallons.

I'd like to believe that somewhere in an alternate fiction universe, Mookie and Pino settled their differences and enjoyed that Knicks win last night.

Reminds me of this installation outside of the aquarium in the Salt Lake area, that locals call 'the claw'. It was once a stage prop for a U2 tour.

They posted this on Twitter today. Interesting that they name-checked the "Mormon church." The comments in response are also...interesting.

This week it was reported that a 7yo kid did the rim-to-rim Grand Canyon hike (22 miles) in one day; and a 7yo summited El Capitan. Both are the youngest to do so. So I can only conclude that 7-year-olds are all out there making the rest of us look lazy. Congrats to them both.

So true and sad. Clause D in the terms basically says flat out, "yeah we're gonna fraud, what you gonna do about it?" www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Welcome to the blue side, @grammartable.bsky.social

Desktop aquarium renovation, version 2026. Added some Rotala, starting over with the Monte Carlo, now injecting CO2 even though I feel like that's cheating, and still rocking the clown killis and pygmy corys.

Thanks to Facebook's algorithm, I am aware that Bill O'Reilly is still out there making videos, and currently he's outraged to discover that international trade is a thing.

Gotta agree with Matt on this one. Drives me crazy as an editor.

Apparently Deseret News decided they wanted to have a hot take today and I about spit out my Yerba Mate.

China now surpasses U.S. in R&D investments, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). www.oecd.org/en/data/insi...

We've all been there bud.

Microsoft Outlook Gripe #362: The default that makes you reply to yourself when you hit 'reply' on an email that has a cc. Seriously Outlook, why would I want to do that!!?

Ok, who wants to see some erratic boulders! #geology Story in the works..

That they have accounts on Truth social and Gettr tells you all you need to know.

I made a dataviz to illustrate the measles situation in my home state of Utah. The MMR vaccination rate has been below the 95% needed for herd immunity for about a decade now, and surprise, there's an outbreak.

Not sure if this would qualify, but throughout the Rocky movies, Mickey is constantly making up Bible quotes or at least doing some heavy paraphrasing, and it's kind of endearing.

Definitely an interesting shift. FWIW, I was curious and did a text search in GC for "Good Friday," "Holy Week," or "Palm Sunday," and here is what I found. To my surprise, no mentions that I know of in GC last week though. I'm all for it, but it does seem to be part of something broader.

Find yourself someone who loves you as much as the NYT loves talking about Trump. From reddit: www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

Sure, this guy.

Just as the Iran war has the American public adequately distracted from the Epstein files, this comes out of nowhere atop my Google News feed. Hilarious.

I don't contact my congressman often, but today I did. Congress needs to convene behind closed doors and across party lines to stop the worst from happening. I hope they do.

I'm sold on these minimalist Nomatic wallets, I'm on my second one I think. Just wanted something that would take up as little space as possible in my pocket.

New Friday WFH tradition: checking out a bit early to go for a walk in the woods while listening to a podcast tangentially related to work.

Now is a good time to try Justin's Peanut Butter cups. Sure they are expensive, but when the alternative is brown mystery substance does it really matter?